Battle of The Sexes

Academy Award Winner Emma Stone is putting down her Oscar (for La La Land) to pick up a tennis racket for a new biopic about one of the greatest tennis players of all time Billie Jean King. The movie is set in 1973 when at that time King was married to a man, but she later in 1981 came out as gay, becoming the first prominent female athlete to do so. She has also been an outspoken advocate for for LGBT rights and for women in sports, arguing for equal pay for female players and founding the Women’s Tennis Association in 1973.